A man has been sentenced for cyber flashing in England for the first time.
Nicholas Hawkes, 39, from Basildon in Essex, was jailed for 66 weeks at Southend Crown Court today after he sent unsolicited photos of his erect penis to a 15-year-old girl and a woman on 9 February.
The older victim took screenshots of the offending image on WhatsApp and reported Hawkes to the police the same day.
Cyber flashing became a criminal offence in England with the passage of the Online Safety Act on 31 January. It has been a crime in Scotland since 2010.
I can't believe that this sort of thing only became illegal in England with the passing of the Online Safety Act earlier this year?
The only thing I can imagine is that it gives authorities powers to gather online information about the culprit - but I would have thought this would have been covered by the normal indecency & harassment legislation.
I had never heard of the so-called "dick pix" which is apparently something that developed among the "screen generation" - those that grew up with a camera phone - and is apparently part of the dating game among them.
The guy in question however is not part of the screen generation.
About time too. Digger and myself have had to wade through countless pics of male appendages, ....enough is enough.
I suspect that went on a lot on these forums over the years. NS got most of the blokes hot under the collar and one sucker fucked up his marriage because of her. I don't get why men think it's sexy to send women photos of their todger. Do they think women swoon at the sight of what really looks like the last sad chicken on the shelf at Farm Foods?
Getting their tits and bits out was fairly common so I hear on dogs for some of the errr ladies there.
I've never understood why blokes want to send pix of their dix either. Do these people feel anything like remorse regret etc later?
I'd be worried about it coming back round again to haunt me!
I thought it was well known that men are visual creatures (what they see is important to them when it comes to women) while for women it is more how they feel (being relaxed around a man, feeling protected, the visuals tend to be down on the list). I would have thought a man sending his todger to a women reveals some level of stupidity plus there is the harassment side of it.
About time too. Digger and myself have had to wade through countless pics of male appendages, ....enough is enough.
I suspect that went on a lot on these forums over the years. NS got most of the blokes hot under the collar and one sucker fucked up his marriage because of her. I don't get why men think it's sexy to send women photos of their todger. Do they think women swoon at the sight of what really looks like the last sad chicken on the shelf at Farm Foods?
Apparently, his was erect, as I suspect most of them are.
One was a 16 year girl, the other woman was in her 60's...nothing like having a varied audience.